Using smoke to purify and cleanse can be helpful for transforming and raising the vibration   of your space or body. Plants and botanicals like sage, incense, and even tobacco smoke are popular ways to smudge or spiritually cleanse an area with smoke. Typically done to prepare for ritual and spiritual ceremony, smudging can be done anytime you want to reset an area, clean tools, or just relax.

In this post, we will explore popular how to use popular tools like Tobacco, Sage, Palo Santo, and Incense for smoke cleansing.

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Happy Birthday, Aries! How are your close friends celebrating you for your birthday? Send them a couple of these gift ideas that are sure to keep success and blessings showering you.

Featured Birthday Gifts for Aries: 

ARIES Body Mist, a refreshing blend of grounding frankincense and mind-sharpening peppermint & rosemary to keep you focused while you continue to knock out another goal from your checklist. 

5-flower Dead Sea Salt Soak, welcome in the new year with this beautiful blend of oils, Dead Sea salt, and botanicals to restore, balance, and lift the spirit. brush away feelings of self doubt, while looking damn fine while doing it. These earrings have a gorgeous malachite stone in them - a stone known for cleaning, healing, and transformation.

Abundance Crystal Set. Keep this set of abundance attracting stones (bloodstone, tiger eye, citrine, and aventurine) on your desk while working to keep the good vibes coming. The focus is all on you this birthday. Treat every bit of you with sacred self touch with this warming full-body anointing oil. 

Zodiac Playlist & Birthday Reading for Aries: 

Enjoy an upbeat playlist (& reading) that admires your fiery charm and celebrates another year of blessings on blessings on blessings. And maybe a few lessons here and there.  

Aries, baby, you are on FIRE right now. Damn...

I mean, you are manifesting things left and right like no ones business right now. You have tangible proof of the power of your diligence. & because you are not a stranger to sharing your blessings, more abundance keeps flowing your way. The floodgates are opening even wider for you, and you are at the front of a long line because the powers that be know that you can handle it.

Your fire is a part of your charm & power, but be careful to lose your cool too hastily right now. Give yourself time to take a step back and detach if you need to. Of course, you don’t owe everyone different parts of you. But reflect: where can you be more patient with people? Think on the past few months, and reflect where you’ve given up on someone a bit too fast.

You don’t need anyone to change you, but you can’t force anyone else to change for you either. What are some patterns you notice in your interactions? Where do you need to redirect some of your energy? You are still you, even with some tweaks & compromising.

Remember a little patience can take you from an unfocused wildfire to a powerful ball of energy that will take your life to another level. Don’t take patience and understanding for granted right now.

The energy is real right now. With you bringing in the new year with a beautiful full moon and your fiery spirit, a lot more blessings are showering down for you.

If you haven’t celebrated your successes in the last few months, DO THAT SOON! Celebrate, rejoice, go out and get cute. You have been waiting for this version of yourself. You are a reason to celebrate.

Cheers to a sweet, beautiful 2019. Thank you for welcoming in these powerful energies, love. We are following your lead!

Happy birthday, Aries! Enjoy your birthday inspired playlist below. 

Happy Birthday, Aries! 

Finally! The sun is out! Child...

This Cali turned Georgia girl was not gonna make it much longer in the cold, but we here. We made it. Things are finally warming up and budding all around Georgia. I can even get away with a little arm showing here and there. AND this ridiculous Pisces Mercury Rx is almost over? Oh, I’m about to turn up...

As we enter Spring Equinox, here are a few simple rituals you can do to embrace this magical season of renewal.

RISE

Match the suns energy and wake up earlier. Don’t make that noise, I promise it is worth it. Spend time in the early morning praying, completing personal rituals, or even preparing for the day. Welcome and watch the the sun rise, and salute the rising sun. Go for a run in the morning, or try a yoga sun salutation routine. Later in the day, go outside and enjoy some sunlight, even if it’s still a bit chilly out. Celebrate the sun in ways that resonate with you. Welcoming the sun is a beautiful springtime habit that shows you are in tune with the changing nature of...well, nature. Find ways to incorporate your family in your outside and sun saluting activities. Everyone could use a healthy dose of Vitamin D these days, so try to get at least 10 minutes of unfiltered sunlight when possible.

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CLEAR

We must make room for the blessing showering down on us. We must clear out so we can allow new in. This is probably my favorite thing to do in spring outside of enjoying the sun - cleaning.  Jumpstart your system by detoxing the body, cleaning the home, and refreshing the spirit during this time.

For me, I started a parasite cleanse a few weeks ago (phase one from LetsBeVegan - phase two from SoulBliss) and baybaaay. It hasn’t been easy, but the results are worth it. I have also been heavily reducing my media consumption (including Netflix and social media) and feel a lot more sane because of it lol.

Luckily, I am moving, so doing a massive deep clean and removal in the house is necessary. I did a Ghetto Marie Kondo and WOW! I don’t wear literally 50% of my closet. I was honestly surprised at some of the things I was hanging on to. It felt good to drop off huge bags of clothes to Goodwill.

Energetically cleaning my new space with intention, This The Life Incense blend, and cool water is also a major key. Spiritually cleaning, just like physically cleaning, is important.

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Here is a list of some herbs that are great for detoxifying the body. Though this is not an exhaustive list, it’s a great list to use as a reference for building your own detox tonic.

Spring Detox Herbs

This is not an exhaustive list of all the herbs in the world that can detox the body, but these are some great ones to incorporate in your diet — especially if you live in the States.

• Angelica root or Don Quai (liver, skin, digestive)
• Bladderwrack (blood)
• Blue vervain (liver, kidney)
• Boneset (lungs)
• Burdock root (skin, blood, total body)
• Casara Sagrada (liver, colon)
• Chickweed (lymph, colon)
• Cleavers (lymph, kidneys, skin, lungs)
• Dandelion leaf (kidneys, gallbladder) Dandelion root (liver)
• Horsetail (kidneys, liver, skin, heavy metals)
• Lemon balm (digestion)
• Marshmallow root (lung, digestion)
• Milk thistle (liver, gallbladder)
• Mullein (lungs)
• Nettles (kidneys, liver, blood)
• Neem (blood)
• Pau d’arco (blood, parasites)
• Plantain (skin, lungs, antiseptic)
• Red clover (blood, lymph)
• Sassafras (kidneys)
• Yarrow (liver, gallbladder, blood)

And if you don’t have experience creating your own teas and tonic blends, I definitely recommend a pre-made detox. One of my favorites can’t be purchased online right now, but I have really been enjoying the SoulBliss Teatox!  not trying to be a tonic mixologist, because I do recommend you read a couple of books before herbal tea testing if you’ve never done it before - I recommend Love Soul Bliss Teatox.

Open

Spring - the season of rebirthing and renewal - requires you to be open. Invite new energies with open arms. You must be open to plant something new. You must be open to birth something new. Open your windows and doors to let fresh air circulate in the open. Welcome good energies with wind chimes, light-reflecting crystals, and windmills. Keep the energy around you open to receive.

Invite friends over (I am having something on Easter Sunday for my Atlanta family! If you are free, let me know and I can send you an invite), and welcome them with open arms. Meditate and invite new ideas with open arms and active support behind these ideas. Be open for all that is about to come your way this year!

Reflection: What does rebirth mean to you in this season if your life? How do you wish to bloom? Ask: what does rebirth mean to you right now? How do you wish to bloom?

Happy Birthday, Pisces! How are you treating yourself this birthday? We think you need to be adorned with sweet smells and gorgeous heart-manifesting greens all birthday season. Shop your birthday list below.

Featured: 

PISCES Body Mist, a beautiful blend of spirit-lifting sandalwood and rose to keep you connected, centered, and grounded - while keeping your heart and mind open. 

Oshun Emerald Tassle Earrings brush away feelings of self doubt, while looking damn fine while doing it. These earrings have a gorgeous malachite stone in them - a stone known for cleaning, healing, and transformation.

Self Love Glow Anointing Booster. The focus is all on you this birthday. Treat every bit of you with sacred self touch with this warming full-body anointing oil. 

Zodiac Playlist & Birthday Reading for Pisces: 

Enjoy a dreamy playlist (& reading) that celebrates the air and water you wade between proudly, especially during this new revolution around the sun.

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The month of February, we will focus on defying and redefining love.

In the last post, I asked:

• What does creating a healthy relationship with yourself look like? 
• What does obsessing over you look like?
• What does loving yourself look like?

In this post, I want to discuss some self love ideas and rituals you can easily incorporate on a daily basis to fall more and more in love with yourself.

Before starting, I want to say that the best self love ritual you can do it one you create with your intuition. Even the mantras I include should be tweaked so they are specific to you and your needs.

For me, self love includes a lot of dancing (twerking is ancestral, we can discuss this one on one if necessary), singing, massages, sunlight, healthy eating, words of affirmation, among other things. While I will list some general rituals here that will be supportive for you, I recommend connecting with your higher self and creating your own self love rituals you can incorporate regularly.  

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